Earlier today we were baking cookies and grilling wings to bring to a party at Kurt and Barbara’s tonight. With all those preparations done we headed downtown to the 36th annual Armadillo Christmas Bazaar, which kicked-off on Wednesday and runs through Christmas Eve. It’s an Austin-style combination of art and music festival, with local artists selling their work to Christmas shoppers, and 3-4 musicians/bands per day scheduled to play sets on the floor among the artists’ booths. You can gather round the stage and watch, or listen to the live music from anywhere in the event center, as you’re doing your shopping. It’s an event I look forward to, more for the music than the shopping, and I usually go a couple of times each year.
Today one of my favorites, Eliza Gilkyson, was playing at 3:30. I enjoyed her set.
We were back home in time to get ready for the party, which was a great time. We got a chance to visit with all our B-dock buddies — with the onset of colder weather and the shorter days that Autumn brings, it’s been a while since everyone saw eachother. Mark your calendars for Wednesday, December 21 at 11:30 PM, which is when the winter solstice occurs in Austin, after which the length of each day beings to increase again (yay!).
Sheila365 